Be Excellent To Each Other

Is skipping the most efficient form of leg transport? I think it is. Why don't we skip more and walk less?

What about the hopping? Why did you mention hopping?!

Rolling is clearly the most efficient. All you need to do is to make sure that wherever you are going you take the route that is downhill all the way.

The natural evolution of that line of thinking, of course, is that the most efficient is falling.

That's a great strategy until you arrive.

I fell for your Mum, then arrived.

Your mum fell on me, and I died.

Skipping and hopping
Are difficult
With heavy shopping.

Walking is falling. You just catch yourself with your other foot and then start falling again.

Michael McIntyre does a section about this. Sucks to be you.

My understanding of the world is transformed.

I look forward to YouTube bids of you furiously skipping/prancing/loping after the bus.

It sounds like you think I didn't do this already.

"I say! Do wait for me, good sir!"

Kangaroos hop, and they're really quick and are supposed to be pretty efficient. I don't know of any skipping animals though.

No animals have wheels, either.

I've seen a wallaby hop into a wall and knock itself spark out.



Or engines. Losers.

I wannabe a wallaby.

I posit that if skipping were more efficient than a light jog, more marathon runners would skip.

skipping, I have a 6 year old so for the first time in 25 years I can skip in public without looking like a nutter.

I posit that they are all as efficient as each other, your still moving the same mass the same amount of distance after all.

That's part of the creationist/evolution debate, that no organism has developed wheels and/or a freely rotating axis movement for transportation. The debate comes from the idea that it is irreducibly complex as to have any effect the two parts of the axis system have to be in place as anything less is without use.

Anyhoo, certain bacteria use a flagellar motor to produce motion, which is the closest to an actual working axis. It's a kind of rotating whip-like structure that rotates, like an outboard motor of sorts.

Anyway that is my (very basic) understanding.

Also

PS: Dance is the most efficient form of transportation as it makes you feel more energised, especially if done with accompanying manic grin.

Only forwards. Skipping produces a lot more upwards distance with each step.

Not if you're stuck with only three for a quadrille

But also the same amount of free fall downwards distance with each step, which is energy cost free and still moving you forward.

I rebut with the notion that the energy levels involved will be different - physical 'work' is a function of mass and velocity, not purely of mass and distance.

But a lot of the skipping fall is lost with downwards movement, rather than forwards.

Michael McIntyre does not look like he skips as much as he thinks he does. Unless he skips whilst forcing pies into his face.

Skippy?

Animals don't have wheels because the arteries and stuff would get twisted up. THINK ABOUT IT.

I tend to skip sometimes. Usually in the places that it's most embarrassing for MrsP. I'm a delight.

I posit that efficiency of motion premise in this case is irregardless of time taken to cover the distance, therefore velocity is immaterial, time is not a factor.

When the moon pulls you?

Then by what do you measure efficiency? Skipping is not more energy efficient, and its time efficiency is superceded by running.

I posit the right honourable gentleman has no case at all!

*guffaws from the back benches*

Lies!
Also lies!


(Images pinched from b3ta via google so I've no idea who made them )

LOL!

I'm not sure that rockets count as "engines". Although that might be a jet-powered polar bear, so I'll let you off this once.

Silly sausage, a rocket engine is a type of internal combustion engine

Rockets are motors, aren't they?

There must be some way of attaching a windmill to the back so the exhaust is reused to produce electricity and make new rocket fuel

One day, this will come back out the other side and be funny again. Until then you're trading on past glories from a nostalgic day that an ever decreasingly small percentage of the board can remember.

You are Norman Wisdom and I claim my five pounds.

Actually, that's the first time I've mentioned that - it's usually Malaboob or Kalmar. It's funnier when they do it.

Lesson learned eh

Just, just, just.... Shut up, that's why.